Barons of the Galaxy Forum - Feature Requests - Longer names for ships/units/facilities - Messages

Message from Hutton

Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:59:38 GMT

Ahh, I see.

Message from Tahujoe

Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:36:11 GMT

Vulpex wrote:

I am concerned that no one picked up that the explanation by Dread "I can't do that" relies on the presence of an apostrophe. Without it, it becomes can't becomes cant which is a rather interesting form of music instead...

Well yeah, but in order for "cant" to make sense, you need either single or double quotes around "do that". Or a colon. "I cant: Do That"

Message from Vulpex

Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:01:25 GMT

I am concerned that no one picked up that the explanation by Dread "I can't do that" relies on the presence of an apostrophe. Without it, it becomes can't becomes cant which is a rather interesting form of music instead...

Message from Hutton

Mon, 19 Jun 2017 08:43:56 GMT

But the Comms is harder to read without apostraphes. An apostrophe isn't a crazy character. It's presence or absence changes the meaning of words.

Message from Tahujoe

Sun, 18 Jun 2017 17:27:00 GMT

Characters related to string parsing, as enclosed in these parentheses ( ' " & # * ? ) are generally problematic. The site has certain security measures that likely wouldn't allow them anyways. They also like to break preview buttons. q:

._. that took me three tries to post
edited by Tahujoe on 6/18/2017

Message from Doctor Dread

Sun, 18 Jun 2017 09:19:19 GMT

Hutton wrote:

Vulpex wrote:
NYC he made it very clear.

Doctor Dread wrote:
I can't do that!

He said he can't make them longer, and that he won't allow "@#$%^&*'/<>" to prevent penis art. And I am pointing out that apostraphes should be categorized with ",.?!" as essential punctuation that is necessary to right unambiguous sentences rather than optional punctuation that lends itself to obscene art.

Not only do i not want penis art, its just ugly and hard to read. When people are attacking you or you want to know which ship is carrying a certain product from an enemy factory it helps that the military name is easily readable. Even when I'm trying to debug problems it helps that the ships names aren't a bunch of crazy characters

Message from Hutton

Sun, 18 Jun 2017 08:14:23 GMT

Vulpex wrote:

NYC he made it very clear.

Doctor Dread wrote:
I can't do that!

He said he can't make them longer, and that he won't allow "@#$%^&*'/<>" to prevent penis art. And I am pointing out that apostraphes should be categorized with ",.?!" as essential punctuation that is necessary to right unambiguous sentences rather than optional punctuation that lends itself to obscene art.

Message from Schwaab

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 23:40:38 GMT

Doctor Dread wrote:

I can't do that!

Bah, that means I wont have SMS Graf Zeppelin!

... but it's OK, it's not that important change to spend too many hours coding it :-)

Thanks for answer

Schwaab

Message from Tahujoe

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:49:44 GMT

Hutton wrote:

I think you could accommodate apostraphes without risking obscene art. You can't properly use contractions or possessive tense without them.

"of" is a fun word. If you can fit it in.

Message from Vulpex

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:00:53 GMT

NYC he made it very clear.

Doctor Dread wrote:

I can't do that!

Message from Hutton

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:49:22 GMT

I think you could accommodate apostraphes without risking obscene art. You can't properly use contractions or possessive tense without them.

Message from ChaChaCharms

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:47:34 GMT

*nonchalantly scrolls through names for your penis.... begins to change ship names*

Message from Vulpex

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:01:56 GMT

I miss ASCII art...

Message from Doctor Dread

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 08:29:33 GMT

Schwaab wrote:

At this moment it's only possible to use 15 characters, it would be nice to have at least 30 characters and also punctuation marks (.!:," etc)

Schwaab

I can't do that! The unit names are displayed in several grids . If the names are long it makes the grids impractical because I have to reserve so much space for the names. The same reason why your corp name is limited and every city or planet name is no longer than about 12 characters.

Also I don't allow punctuation because we'll get Penis ASCII art ships everywhere =)

Message from Schwaab

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 04:54:37 GMT

At this moment it's only possible to use 15 characters, it would be nice to have at least 30 characters and also punctuation marks (.!:," etc)

Schwaab